Lesson #3: The Social Vision of Revolutionary Poets and Today’s World

Lesson #3: The Social Vision of Revolutionary Poets and Today’s World

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This is the third and final lesson plan of the mini-unit I have created on Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California." The lesson described is geared towards helping students see how the visions of more socially accepting societies posed by Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Federico Garcia Lorca are relevant in their lives and poetry to the world today. In particular, students are asked to examine how the social visions these three poets espoused compare to the social vision proclaimed in the Black Eyed Peas song "Where is the Love?" and how these three poets might react to the social exclusion of Muslims in France reported in an NPR audio segment and article. Students are also asked to begin to consider how they might "invoke" figures they do not know to support their ideas for making the world a "better place," the main focus of the suggested creative project that functions as an assessment of students' learning in this unit.

Kayleigh Forlow

Kayleigh Forlow